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29th May, three years ago
May 2015 - Bolivia

[This anonymous text discusses the consequences of
the repressive blow of 29th May 2012 against the anarchist and libertarian movement in Bolivia, with numerous arrests, a lot of snitching and several detentions,
including that of companion Henry Zegarrundo today
outside under judicial control.]
This anonymity is not a refuge.
It is total detachment.
Today, as I write these words, I read in a newspaper
that in Llallagua they have torched the offices of the
Ombudsman of Children, the prosecutors, police offices
and the home of a confessed rapist. I smile. I celebrate,
they will not expect the police to take charge, they destroy state institutions, they attack. But the smile disappears... Okay, collective revolt is different. Less risky
(some say) but possible at all times (the smile returns).
An essay of irreverence
I hate texts explaining with literary details and exquisite
philosophies the anarchic reasons to make them sympathetic to readers. As I write this text I do not pretend to
please anyone or polish up anything, not even to explain,
on the contrary I want to insist antipathetically (starting
from explosive and arson attacks in La Paz, Sucre and
Cochabamba, between 2011 and 2012) that anarchic confrontation can not remain an isolated case. It depends on

everyone to make the revolt a potential of joy and hatred
chaotically flowing through our lives, and feel in every
step of insubordination the boundless joy of freedom.
It is uncomfortable to talk about the existence of action
groups and attacks on physical symbols of domination
in the territory controlled by the Bolivian state because
the judicial process remains open and because as a
movement we have not yet been able to overcome the
counterattack of the system. But it is precisely why it is
more important to have a reflection, an honest and firm
stance on what happened, and so I’m going to.
The 29th lacked fire…
On 29 May, following the arrests, what was missing was
the fire. The statements clarifying that the arrested had
nothing to do with the attacks did not, and it was obvious that they would not, have the necessary strength.
The strength could only come from the fire, of more
attacks, and that was a determinedly fatal error, not
only for the arrested, but for the anarchic offensive itself, because from then, repression managed to reduce
a growing movement to a series of terrified trenches.
What happened? There was simply much confusion and
a desire to avoid arrest, so there was little agility, little
strategy and little security when meeting among affinities in order to react as we should have done: burning
and attacking everything that we could. And I say that

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